You will need some familiarity with Neo4j, and the Cypher language in particular. The material from the Intro to Neo4j course is sufficient knowledge to understand this course

Course Description

This course teaches how to design and implement a graph data model and associated queries. With a mixture of instruction and hands-on practice sessions, you’ll learn how to apply the property graph model to solve common modeling problems. You’ll also learn how to evolve an existing graph in a controlled manner to support new or changed requirements.

Course Outline

Introduction to the labeled property graph model

Modeling guidelines

Common graph structures

Evolving a graph model

Technical requirements

You will need your own laptop. Please arrive early to quickly install the product and labs used in the class.

INSTRUCTOR

Mark Needham, Neo Technology

Mark is a graph advocate and field engineer for Neo Technology, the company behind the Neo4j graph database. As a field engineer, Mark helps customers embrace graph data and Neo4j building sophisticated solutions to challenging data problems. When he's not with customers Mark is a developer on Neo4j and writes his experiences of being a graphista on a popular blog at http://markhneedham.com/blog. He tweets at @markhneedham.

FAQs

What should I bring to the event?

Please bring a laptop and power cord; we will supply coffee and lunch.

Friday, March 28, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (GMT)

Organizer

GraphAcademy

Graph Academy is the world’s leading source for developer education on graph databases.

GraphAcademy is your premier destination to access flexible and innovative learning options that you need to become a graph data professional!

GraphAcademy Training provides you with the required skills to be effective with graph data and productive with Neo4j. You will gain key modeling and implementation skills to tackle graph data management on Neo4j with ease.

Serving customers in production for over a decade, Neo4j is the world’s leading graph database with the largest ecosystem of partners and tens of thousands of successful deployments.